Tag Archives: Negroponte

Negroponte’s OLPC, a Star in Rwanda

Ali Balunywa | 30 July 2009, 9:12 am | tags: ,

His mother, Jael paid for the laptop in February 2009, but Collin received it in April this year. Collins claims the whole student community at the school right from kindergarten to secondary school got each a laptop. Each pupil had to part with the equivalent of US $ 220.00 in order for one’s son/daughter acquire one.

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Ben White | 13 December 2008, 11:34 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and a young boy training to become a child soldier. The commercial starts with the line “Children are fast learners” and closes…